Flowers of Despair || Haruto from TREASURE

thirty

April 20, 2022

"Okay everybody settle down, please!" Indigo yelled for all the recent generation of royalties to hear while she was carrying Eunji, Hwayoung and Jihoon's cousin. They were all gathered outside of the palace for the role call of prince and princesses to enter.

"You are all lined up in order of how the herald is gonna call you. Once your names are called, stop right there in the first circle and take a bow, Aranya and her parents are gonna see you from above." She pointed at the large circle of the tiled floor in the hall.

"You know it's funny that they need to announce our names when we literally live here." Haruto turned his head to Hwayoung.

"Not that I'm complaining or anything but shouldn't she celebrate her birthday in Thailand? Why is she here in Korea celebrating it in someone else's palace?" Jeongwoo turned around and faced Hwayoung.

Jaehyuk, who was in front of Jeongwoo, hit him on the head. "Shut up, her best friend is your partner," He lowly said as he saw Asha walking up to them. "Hey Asha." He gave her a small wave.

"Hi Jaehyuk." She waved back and stopped next to Jeongwoo.

The herald started calling names of the royalties while Jaehyuk looked back to the front. "Such a fake." Jeongwoo muttered to himself and rolled his eyes.

"Huh? I'm a fake?" Asha heard him and pointed at herself.

"No I wasn't talking about-" Jeongwoo was cut off when she started talking so fast.

"How am I a fake? I literally just got here, what did I even do to you? Did I ever act fake to you for you to say that? You know, I never really wanted a date at first. If you don't want me to be your partner you shouldn't have asked me cause you're just gonna talk crap about me and-"

"ASHA I LITERALLY SAID IT WASN'T YOU." Jeongwoo groaned. Haruto and Eunhye heard how frustrated their friend was, making them laugh.

"Those two are a handful." Eunhye chuckled while taking a few steps forward.

"Oh definitely. They have the same personalities, it's quite scary." Haruto chuckled.

As the line got shorter, they needed to go up the stairs. He assisted her as they went up because he was afraid that she might not be able to go up comfortably with her bruised legs. "You know I'm alright with walking on my own right?" Eunhye chuckled while they walked up.

"I'm just making sure, I don't want anything to happen to you."

She hid her smile after what he just said. They stopped in the middle of the large doors where they would enter and waited for their queue to enter.

"Prince Watanabe Haruto of Japan and Princess Gracielle Allaire of France." The herald announced their names loudly with such formality that it made them hold back their laughter.

They walked towards the circle just as they were told. Haruto gave a proper 90 degree bow while Eunhye did a curtsy. After their successful performance, they looked at each other with a smile and went to their assigned table with the other Treasure and Caramia members.

They looked at the two as they sat down on the only two vacant seats left. "We're finally complete." Jihoon clasped his hands together.